One of the smartest and funniest people in Blogsylvania (or Blogistan, or wherever you go to satisfy your weblog-reading needs) is Mark Evanier, who notes here that

[...] I think reflex partisanship -- especially along the Democrat/Republican divide -- is one of the more pernicious elements of our public discourse.

He also has a bunch of entertaining stuff to say about the California recall effort, which seems unlikely to do anybody any good at all.